Rumaan Alam Quotes

It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.

Rumaan Alam

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HistoryGreatRememberConscience

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Joanna Southcott

FatherAngerMeNightCleanOut

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

BusinessPerspectivePeopleYouLose

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

Max Holloway

LifeMy OwnOwnLike

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

MF Doom

EyeDoingCanvasStageWhateverUp

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

John Scalzi

FutureTechnologyEyesTimeManNew

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

John Stossel

GovernmentLawyersMoreCompensation

I lived on the street myself.

Roddy Piper

MyselfStreetLived

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

Roseanne Barr

YouKnowNowKindMental Illness

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

Chrystia Freeland

BestBelieveWorstHopingReally

Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.

Bob Weir

DreamsYour DreamsYouTouchYour

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

HopeHabitTelevisionResultsSpread

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Pharrell Williams

LifeHomeThinkYouCardsHand

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